Quotes about Jail

and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.

But on arriving at the jail, the officers did not find them there. So they returned with the report:

“We found the jail securely locked, with the guards posted at the doors; but when we opened them, we found no one inside.”

Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”

When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: Try to bear lightly what needs must be. Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.

John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.